This deck plans to build early with shootout hexes and horses to power Calling the Cavalry, occupy town square and apply control pressure with Allie Hensman and the home's ability. You generally never want to call out the opponent unless necessary since that prevents Jaqueline Isham from using her react. Dave Gorman can be a nasty threat when you hit one of your two-bullet dudes with CtC, Bowie Knife or You Had ONE Job! after he's debuffed everyone, but use caution against possible Sun In Yer Eyes after the fact. Pistol Whips should be held to deal with dudes carrying Shotguns or others that try to move in via Pintos, Carter's Bounties, The Stakes Just Rose, etc. Pedros combined with Nightmare Realms give you the advantage in attrition wars.

Looks similar to something I built last year but scrapped, good to see the idea can actually work! What was the field like? I found in testing that Morgan decks were able to build up quicker than I could and bully me out of town square with their superior horsepower. I'd be interested to hear if you faced any and how you dealt with them.

@DoomDog it's definitely a problematic matchup as CtC and Pistol Whips do very little for you. Your best bet is to build up hexes and set up Dave's ability with a Pinto or two to move in some studs and take out a few dudes in one round, but it is sketchy and requires a little caution and possibly some luck.

@Zeetoois Bowie Knife is still a good so why not? Even though it can be played as a shootout action it still has to follow attachment rules unless put into play by some other effect that ignores them.

Aaaaaand now the rest of my comment doesn't post. Ugh. This communication is terrible haha. I was under the impression you COULD play Bowie Knife in TS (or any other location you don't control). Is that not the case?

@Zeetoois no unfortunately not. Even though Bowie Knife has the nice ability to surprise your opponent by being played as a shootout action, it still has to follow the rules of attachment that all other goods follow ( on an unbooted dude you control in a location you control ). It's still a great card, but not quite that busted :]

@Zeetoois on pg. 18 of the rulebook it does state "Some card effects let you bring another card into play. When using one of these effects, the new
card enters play following these same rules, depending on its type. The costs of the new card
must still be paid, so if you can’t pay those costs, you can’t attempt to bring it into play. If that
new card is a goods or spell, a dude can attach it even when booted and/or in a location you don’t
control. Dudes still can’t take anything that they aren’t allowed to carry." This is referring to bringing a card into play with another separate card such as General Store. However, Bowie Knife is stating on itself that you can play it as a shootout action, so it still must follow the normal attachment procedure.

Hmm. I was seeing the "may attach," and that gives me pause. If nothing else, I'd love an official answer, because this is the first time I've heard that it can't be attached in such a way. I'm sure you're correct, but still. To the rules forum!